Active Learning for All-The Fundamentals of Learning and Inclusive Teaching
1: The Essence of How We Learn
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"Uncommon Sense Teaching" Syllabus
Guidance in Applying for Continuing Education or Professional Development Credit
2: Learn It, Link It
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3: How Students Fool Themselves into Thinking They’re Learning
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4: Teaching Inclusively—The Importance of Working Memory Capacity
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5: Tricks for Expanding Working Memory (Hint—It Involves Long-Term Memory)
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The Fundamentals of Learning and Inclusive Teaching
Optional Video: How to Integrate a Flashcard Retrieval Practice System into This Course
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Active Learning for All-Diving into the Practicalities of Teaching and Learning Inclusively
6: Inclusivity, Differentiation, and Scaffolding
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7: Practical Insights Related to Working Memory
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8: What Is Active Learning?
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9: Summary Week 1
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Diving into the Practicalities of Teaching and Learning Inclusively
Optional Video: Interview with Dr. Cory Steiner about His School's Conversion to Mastery Learning
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Helping the Brain Build Better Links for Learning-Declarative Learning, Consolidation, and Metaphor
1: Introduction to the Declarative Learning System (Hip Hip, Hooray!)
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2: I Do Declare, There’s a Hip Way to Get Info into Long-Term Memory!
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3: Concussion Dealt Me a Knockout Blow—The Value of Consolidation
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4: The Value of Metaphor
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Declarative Learning, Consolidation, and Metaphor
Helping the Brain Build Better Links for Learning-Procedural Learning, Exercise, and Focus
5: Introduction to Procedural Learning
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6: Drill to SKILL
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7: The Power of Exercise
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8: The Vital Importance of Focus
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9: Summary Video Week 2: Helping the Brain Build Better Links for Learning
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Procedural Learning, Exercise, and Focus
Practice, Passion, and Procrastination-Procrastination, Practice, and Passion
1: Focused and Diffuse Modes
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2: Procrastination and the Pomodoro Technique
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3: Diving Deeper into Procrastination
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4: Don’t Just Follow Your Passions—Broaden Them!
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5: Practice—the Key to Remarkable Changes
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Procrastination, Practice, and Passion
Practice, Passion, and Procrastination-Fairness for Success, Introduction to Motivation, and (oh no!) Rubrics!
6: Motivation, Habit, and Salt
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7: Rubrics
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8: Helping Students Succeed in Test-Taking
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9: Ensuring Equity, Fairness, and Inclusion in Your Testing
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10: Week 3 Summary
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Fairness for Success, Introduction to Motivation, and (oh no!) Rubrics!
How Human Brains Evolved—and Why This Matters for your Teaching-Insight from Evolution on How Modern Humans Learn
1: Children’s Changing Brains
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2: When It Comes to Learning, Some Stuff Is Easy and Some Is Hard
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Insight from Evolution on How Modern Humans Learn
How Human Brains Evolved—and Why This Matters for your Teaching-Direct Instruction: A Magic Mixture of Explicit Instruction and Active Learning
3: How Should Teaching Change as Students Grapple with More Difficult Material?
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4: Teacher-Directed Instruction Leads to Student-Directed Approaches
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5: Driving Home the Main Ideas
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6: Summary Video Week 4
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Direct Instruction: A Magic Mixture of Explicit Instruction and Active Learning
How Human Brains Evolved—and Why This Matters for your Teaching-Course Wrap Up
7: Wrap Up, Course 1
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Ratings and Where to Go from Here!